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...King Charles used to regularly play for the club’s polo team and the late Queen Mother was reported to enjoy frequenting the elegant townhouse on Clifford Street, next to Savile Row....
...A kind of finishing school for the wealthier classes seeking boho credentials, its residents graduated to become the kings and queens of the London media scene, financiers, fashion designers, plus a British...
...The royal family have had a number of health shocks since King Charles succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth II in 2022....
...If we get the queen who reflects her people, Queen Camilla is a mood: neither chic nor youthful, she embodies a somewhat matronly energy....
...King Charles acceded to the throne in September 2022 at the age of 73 after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. He had been heir apparent for a record 70 years....
‘I think I preferred it when the Queen didn’t write them’
...Before her death, the nature of the Queen’s illness and circumstances of her final hours were kept tightly under wraps. By contrast in January King Charles was candid about being diagnosed with cancer....
...King Charles III, who is also being treated for cancer, and Queen Camilla have been informed about the state of the princess’s health....
...Among them are Napoleon’s favoured croquamandes (caramelised almonds coated with dark chocolate, from €30), Charles X’s Fleur de Lys (a caramel ganache covered with chocolate, part of the Classiques délicieux...
...In the 1860s, the widowed Queen Victoria’s prolonged period of mourning for Prince Albert led to the most serious stirring of republican sentiment since the execution of Charles I....
...He also led the broadcaster’s coverage for national events such as Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation....
...“To you, she was your Queen. To us, she was THE Queen,” he said....
...Sotheby’s will offer a Diego Velázquez full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, queen of Spain and the first wife of Philip IV, for a princely $35mn in New York on February 1 2024....
...The controversial scenes — which find the recently deceased princess speaking with Charles and the Queen — are likely to only offend those who seek to be offended....
...If you like a good tear-jerker — and Victorian readers certainly did — nothing surpasses the heart-rending and carefully heralded death of young Paul in Charles Dickens’ seventh novel, Dombey and Son....
...The enchanting stone house, in the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, feels like the setting of a Charles Perrault fairy tale....
...Coins with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 in September 2022, are still in circulation and will remain legal tender as they are gradually phased out over time....
...The cancer of King Charles, announced in February, was also diagnosed incidentally. The monarch had undergone surgery for an enlarged prostate....
...For its architects, Augustus Pugin and Charles Barry, the Gothic Revival aesthetic was part of an attempt to co-opt Gothicism as the national style....
...at Queen Mary University of London, who was not involved in the study....
...Marshall, a professor of clinical neurology at Queen Mary University of London, who was not involved in the test....
...The arrival of the ghost of Princess Diana, to trouble the dreams of the Queen and the now King Charles in this increasingly dreary series, would seem to resolve the facile dispute over its factual accuracy...
...The king and Queen Camilla were at the centre of a day of ancient ceremony with modern touches and military spectacle that ended with a palace balcony appearance and shortened flypast...
...At Royal Ascot this week, King Charles and Queen Camilla made their debuts as the horseracing world’s newly crowned heads of state....
...In 1856, Hancock was granted the Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria that included making the Victoria Cross, which it continues to do today....
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